The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
HENRY WARD BEECHERRepentance is another name for aspiration.
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See to it that each hour’s feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.
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The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
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“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
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True obedience is true freedom.
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Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.
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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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The human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
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Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
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If you want your neighbor to know what Christ will do for him, let the neighbor see what Christ has done for you.
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Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs and then cackles.
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It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
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Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.
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Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.
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Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
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Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
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Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.
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Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page
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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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We go to the grave of a friend saying, “A man is dead,” but angels throng about him saying, “A man is born.”
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The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.
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Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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